Preliminary reports suggest one tornado may have traveled nearly 200 miles, causing severe damage and human losses in Kentucky and three other states.
Satellites Spot Tornado Tracks Across Midwest
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NCAR’s New Mini-Satellite Will Measure Howling Winds High in Earth’s Atmosphere
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has received $6.5 million in funding from NASA to launch a roughly shoebox-sized satellite into space carrying an instrument designed to measure the howling thermospheric winds, which can gust more than 300 miles per hour through the highest reaches of the Earth’s atmosphere.
Early Bloomers: Using Citizen-Science Data to Investigate Unseasonal Flowering in Joshua Trees
In November 2019, visitors to Joshua Tree National Park in California encountered a strange sight.
An Opaleye-opening Result
Whether it’s warm outside or cold, people generally eat about the same amount. But a fish’s appetite can vary enormously with the temperature.
Decreased Vehicle Emissions Linked With Significant Drop in Deaths Attributable to Air Pollution
Decreasing vehicle emissions since 2008 have reduced by thousands the number of deaths attributable to air pollution, yielding billions of dollars in benefits to society, according to a new study led by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Study Combines Climatic, Tectonic Models to Explain Andean Conundrum
The Andes Mountains are much taller than plate tectonic theories predict they should be, a fact that has puzzled geologists for decades.
